Articles — Kiabara Journal of Humanities

African Literature

Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow as Narrative of Kenyan Post-colonial Power Contestations

Bernard Otonye Stephen — Niger Delta University · Vol. 26, No. 1 · 18 June 2020

Chinyelu Florence Ojukwu

From Weep Not, Child (1964) to Wizard of the Crow (2007), Ngugi wa Thiong’o has remained deeply preoccupied with the fate of the Kenyan society in its transitions through different historical epochs. His interest in the...

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African Literature

Innovations towards the Representation of the Other than-Human in African Literature

Laurel Chikwado Madumere — Imo State Polytechnic · Vol. 25, No. 1 · 03 July 2019

African modern literature is fraught with protests. At first it was the protests against imperialism; later it became a protest against African postcolonial elites and neo-colonialism. The literature, at the stages above...

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African Literature

Poetry, Gravitas, and Society

Obari Gomba — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 24, No. 1 · 05 July 2018

This paper examines the relationship between poetry and society as indicated by the creativity of poets. Poetry is an age-long form of art; it has existed across communities and cultures. Through its capacity to combine...

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Gender & Identity Studies

What was the Notion of ‘The Other’ in Antiquity? An Examination from the Perspective of the Ancient Greeks

Goke A. Akinboye — University of Ibadan · Vol. 22, No. 2 · 20 June 2016

Gill Oluwatosin Adekannbi

The idea of ‘the other’ and ‘otherness’ often relates to the state of a group being different from certain individuals, groups or peoples. Over and over again, a greater or superior group, using certain social distin...

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